Bel, the Christ of Ancient Times

Chicago: The Open Court Pub. Co, 1908. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Large octavo with green boards; cloth spine and red stamping; iv pages, 1 leaf, 55 pages; 24 cm About good(+) overall, with boards show some dampstaining and edgewear; faint pencil notes on pg. 54-55; else pages are clean and unmarked and binding is strong. Hardcover.

"In issuing these pages it is my hope that the prospective readers will see in the Christian Religion, as I do, the glorious culmination of the wisdom and faith of ages past. The "Light that lightens the world" said of himself, "before Abraham was I was." --He was and existed and was worshiped as "Son of God of Heaven and Earth" under various names as early as 7000 B.C., when the monotheistic trinitarian religion of Babylonia was systematized." --Preface